🪁Bad advice

Setup and Launch

Line actors up in a row or semicircle. Explain the task: we take a real-life problem from the audience and respond in turn with short lines — one piece of advice at a time. Advice can be both useful and deliberately "bad"; what matters is brevity, a clear idea, and a crisp punchline.

Ask the audience for a safe, non-traumatic problem (e.g.: "I'm always late for work", "my neighbor is noisy", "I have a difficult boss"). Agree with actors: one sentence — one idea, no explanations or acted-out scenes. Coach signals: "Next!" — to the next actor, "Stop" — end the topic and take a new one.

Flow

1. Collecting the prompt. Quickly take 1–2 problems, choose the most playable, and state it verbatim so everyone hears the same formulation.

2. First wave of advice. Start from any actor and maintain a brisk pace: one piece of advice — one micro-punchline; alternate "useful" and "bad" advice for contrast.

3. Keeping order. If someone goes into explanations or a story, gently cut them off ("Short — next!"). Watch that no one monopolizes the queue, and rotation is even.

4. Acceleration and button. When the stream starts to thin (after 20–40 seconds), accelerate for 2–3 beats, catch the strongest laugh, and drop the button ("Done!") — end the round.

5. Changing the problem. Take the next prompt and repeat 2–4 rounds, rotating the starting actor for balance of voices and freshness of angles.